O, James Ellroy! Such a loveable nutjob are you! In his interview on public radio's Studio 360 last week, the author of L.A. Confidential and The Black Dahlia managed to 1) chastise his interviewer for interrupting him at one point, ...

Was it the gentleman seated next to me at the symposium who told me that he had six subscriptions to New York's Metropolitan Opera? Was it the gentleman who told me about how his seatmate at the Ring Cycle in Bayreuth, ...

"Poetry is a controlled refinement of sobbing. We've got to face that. And if that's true, do we want to give drugs so that people won't weep? No, because if we do, poetry will die. The rhyming of rhymes is ...

In his new memoir, True Compass, we learn that Ted Kennedy, when trying to decide whether to run for Senate in 1962, remembered what his father had told him as a child: "You can have a serious life or a ...